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This capability provides APHIS/PPQ better security, reporting functions, and monitoring capabilities for exported commodities. The PCIT also provides a link to the PExD. PExD is a repository of phytosanitary import requirements of U.S. origin commodities to foreign countries. PExD enhances Plant Protection and Quarantine’s (PPQ’s) ability ...
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) based in Riverdale, Maryland responsible for protecting animal health, animal welfare, and plant health. APHIS is the lead agency for collaboration with other agencies to protect U.S. agriculture from invasive pests and ...
A correctly prepared cat, dog, or ferret may be imported without quarantine into the United Kingdom from the following countries under the Pet Travel Scheme (PETS), but only via an authorised transport company (which includes the Channel Tunnel and most ferry services for arrivals by car). [33] [34]
Should I travel with my anxious cat? Cats as a species are far less adaptable and socialized than dogs, which are used to traveling with humans and enjoy going on walks, said Wailani Sung, a cat ...
The pet passport contains information regarding the animal's microchip, rabies vaccination, rabies titre test results, parasite treatments, a picture of the pet and the animal's veterinary and ownership details. Countries outside of the EU refer to a ‘pet passport’ as all of the valid information required for a pet to travel between countries.
The Animal Welfare Act (Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966, Pub. L. 89–544) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 24, 1966. [1] It is the main federal law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in research and exhibition.
In 2013, "An Act to Amend the Animal Welfare Act to Modify the Definition of 'Exhibitor'," added ‘‘an owner of a common, domesticated household pet who derives less than a substantial portion of income from a nonprimary source (as determined by the Secretary) for exhibiting an animal that exclusively resides at the residence of the pet ...
EU pet passport. A pet passport is a document that officially records information related to a specific animal, as part of that procedure. The effect is to drastically speed up and simplify travel with and transport of animals between member countries, compared to previous procedures if the regulations are followed. [1]